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October, 2007
For Myra D. Silas and her family, life was far from perfect on the 13th floor of their Cabrini-Green high-rise on the Near North Side. Silas said she saw four children killed in the mid-1990s and "can't say how many I saw actually get shot."
But the violence receded after a 1997 gang truce, she said, and her building, at 500 W. Oak St., became more of a community. "We were like a family,"...
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August, 2007
Most of the low-income families leaving Chicago's public housing behind–"with the help of federal rent subsidies–"are trading one poor, African American city neighborhood for another, an investigation by The Chicago Reporter has found.
The Chicago Housing Authority provided the rental certificates, known as Section 8, to 1,044 families whose public housing units have been slated for closure...
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August, 2007
Chicago's long-standing policy of encouraging minority and female participation in city contracts is suffering from neglect and lax enforcement, an investigation by The Chicago Reporter has found.
In each of the last two years, the city reached only half its annual "Target Market" goal to award 10 percent of its contract dollars directly to minorities. While the Target Market goal is not...
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